Digital Collections and Projects
Wellesley College Library is developing a collection of resources in various digital formats to provide access and preserve many of the rare, valuable or brittle materials among the library collections. These information resources integrated with existing catalog information are developed to further support the research and teaching missions of Wellesley College.
On the current page, we have provided a few links to our existing locally-created digital resources as we eagerly develop several additional collections and exhibits. All ongoing digital library research and development at Wellesley is being done in-house by Library staff using readily available equipment and software.
We hope you find our efforts valuable.
The Wellesley College Library's Special Collections contain approximately 100 pre-1600 bound manuscripts and fragments, encompassing humanist, liturgical, and secular texts. Approximately one half of these are in the Plimpton Collection of Italian literature and poetry, given to Wellesley College in 1900 by Mr. George Arthur Plimpton in memory of is wife, Frances Taylor Pearsons Plimpton, class of 1884.
The Wellesley College Archives Image Database provides access to campus views, sporting events, commencement, and hoop rolling images dating back to the 1800s. This is only a portion of the vast photograph collection in the Archives. Please contact the archives for higher-quality images.
Music collection: This online collection reproduces the sheet music for the majority of MacDowell's character pieces for piano, most of which are not available in print anthologies of his piano music. All these works are in the public domain.
The
Indian names of Boston, and their meaning by Eben Norton
Horsford
" Read before the
New England Historic Genealogical Society, November 4, 1885 [and published
in the New-England historical and genealogical
register, v. 40, p. 94-103]"
This series of plans of the Town of Boston is the result of a great amount of research, and presents in a most interesting manner the growth of the Town from the first settlement to 1645.
A visual history of dorm life at Wellesley to celebrate the college's 125th anniversary
Throughout the history of the college, maps and views have captured that "intricate beauty" while recording striking changes to the built environment. These cartographic portraits reflect the college community's evolving sense of itself and its relation to the outside world.
Books
of Hours in the Wellesley College Library's Special Collections
The manuscripts were made in France and the Low Countries
and date from the early 15th century to the first quarter of the 16th century.
Abridged version of the Resonance and Response exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with ABC: the Artists’ Books Conference, held at Wellesley College on June 15-18, 2005.
This exhibition is designed to show the diversity of works by women book artists. The art of the book in the late twentieth century has come a long way from the artist's book of the early 1900's with traditional text and illustrations.
